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The Design of Art
Two legends from the world of art, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carsten Höller, will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2012.
As part of Design Indaba’s commitment to constantly broadening its
creative scope, it is with great pleasure that we welcome two of the
most influential individuals working in the world of art today, as
speakers to Design Indaba Conference 2012.
In different ways Hans Ulrich Obris
and Carsten Höller
are both working to redefine notions of contemporary art and the viewer’s experience thereof.
Visit the Art South Africa stand at the Design Indaba Expo from Friday
2nd March to Sunday 4th March. We will have back issues of the magazine;
art and design books; art for sale on our stand.
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| Art On Paper hosts an exhibition by Richard Penn
The exhibition entitled Horizon which runs until the 17th of March 2012.
Horizon is Richard Penn’s second solo exhibition at Gallery
Penn’s drawings are executed in a super-fine hand without ever making the viewer uncomfortable about their labour intensive, obsessive and complex nature: their playful randomness draws the viewer effortlessly into a kind of super-sensory state of awareness.AOP. Drawings in pen and ink characteristically form the main focus of the exhibition, but a number of limited edition prints extends his formal repertoire: a large-scale black-and-white linocut and a suite of etchings. Read more... |
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| Candice Breitz Joins Goodman Gallery as Represented Artist
The Goodman Gallery is proud to announce that we will henceforth be representing Candice Breitz. Candice, who was born in Johannesburg, but now lives and works in Berlin, has achieved extensive international renown and has exhibited her photographs and video installations worldwide. Recent solo shows of her work have been hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Pinchuk Art Center (Kyiv), the Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria), The Power Plant (Toronto) and White Cube (London). Her exhibition Candice Breitz: Extra! -- currently on at the Standard Bank Gallery and presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and Goodman Gallery -- is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Candice's work to be shown in South Africa. After its run in Johannesburg, Candice Breitz: Extra! will travel to Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, to open there in late April 2012. We look forward to working with Candice, and to bringing more of her work home to be enjoyed by South African audiences.
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| Brundyn and Gonsalves Paul Emsley is the 2012 University of Stellenbosch Wordfest/Woordfees Artist.His retrospective exhibition will run from 2 March until 21 April 2012 at the Sasol Art Museum in Stellenbosch. Read more... The gallery will present works by Tom Cullberg at SCOPE New York 2012. The fair runs from 7-11 March and focusses primarily on international emerging contemporary art.
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| Art South Africa Magazine Invited to Attend Art Dubai Over the last five years, Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), has become a cornerstone of the region’s booming contemporary art community. In 2011, Art Dubai welcomed 20,000 visitors – including 60 international museums groups - and hosted over 70 galleries from 30 countries.
The sixth edition of Art Dubai takes place March 21-24, 2012, at Madinat Jumeirah, and features 75 galleries from 31 countries, in addition to a new programme of artists’ and curators’ residencies, commissioned projects, performative tours, workshops, the unveiling of the works by Abraaj Capital Art Prize winners and the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum. Art Dubai is part of Art Week, the umbrella initiative that includes Sikka Art Fair
(organised by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, and taking place in Al Bastakiya, March 15-25), Design Days Dubai, and a range of contemporary art and design events, major museum shows, and new gallery exhibitions and artists’ projects, taking place each March. Art Week positions the Gulf as a place of artistic production and home to multiple cultural centres.
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| | Two Exhibitions Opening at Blank Projects in March Modal Approach and Accent by Gerda Scheepers and Minor Riot by Michael
Linders both open at Blank Projects on Thursday 1 March 2012.
Modal Approach and Accent is the title of Gerda
Scheepers's show at Blank Projects. By applying imagery as short-hand for both
her own art making process or specific (cultural) signs and figurations, Gerda
Scheepers explores the medium of painting.
Minor Riot is a probe of imagined views of the
ordinary, which are collected from the multicultural reservoir of global visual
media. The collected works are after reflections or after thoughts brought
together under the ethos of the “clusterfuck aesthetic” The exhibitions close on 24 March. |
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| Art Patrons in Support of Art South Africa Magazine We were very honoured and
overwhelmed by the support received from South African artists,
galleries and patrons, who very generously donated work for our fund
raising event at the end of 2011. Each week we'll feature a group of
these artists and their work in recognition of their support.
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| Beth Diane Armstrong Beth Diane Armstrong was born in 1985, grew up in Johannesburg and is now living and working in Cape Town. She studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown where she obtained her BFA cum laude in 2007 and her MFA with distinction in 2010. She was heralded as one of Art South Africa’s ‘Bright Young Things’ in 2009. Her first solo show outside of the University context was of her Masters body of work, Hippocampus, shown at iArt in May 2010. Since then, as gallery artist with iArt, she has had two shows - ‘To skip the last step’ and ‘towards the architecture of loss’- as well as having been involved in a number of group shows. Involved in the ‘Not all is Black and White’ World For All Foundation initiative, Armstrong was one of 33 South African artists who made a proudly South African zebra for the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup. Most recently she created the sculptures and imagery for Cape-based Prescient Investment Management’s first ever full-scale advertising campaign.
www.brundyngonsalves.com
|  | Abri de Swardt
Abri de Swardt was born in Johannesburg in 1988 and graduated with a B.A. in Visual Arts (Fine Art) cum laude at Stellenbosch University where he is currently pursuing an Honours in Visual Studies. Significant participation in projects includes a residency at Liza Grobler’s Visitor at the Irma Stern Museum in October 2009; Mixtape Mobile Cinema, a travelling compendium of video art at the 2010 Grahams Town National Arts Festival; Anja de Klerk’s proposed curatorial project on the shortcomings of the South African art system, Art Now Now: the horse knows the way, presented at the ICI, New York, in June 2010; and KR!SP at art.b gallery in 2011. He has received merit awards at Sasol New Signatures and ABSA L’Atelier in 2009 and 2010 respectively, and was the recipient of the Timo Smuts prize for top Fine Art graduate at Stellenbosch University in 2010.
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Bongi Bengu
Bongi Bengu was born in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, grew up in exile, in Geneva, Switzerland and studied in High School in Switzerland and later Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland. She attended Mount Vernon College, Washington DC, USA, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Cum, Laude. Major: Fine Art. In 1997 Bengu obtained an MFA from the University of Cape Town. Bengu has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both locally and abroad and is extensively represented in prominent art collections.
bongibengu@msn.com
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 | Jan Henri Booyens
Born in Durban, South Africa (1980), Jan-Henri Booyens’ works are focused on the study of non-objective idiosyncratic landscapes and are distinctly rendered on medium and large scale canvases. Booyens comments, “I rely on intuition in my working process and in the act of painting itself, with the outcome seldom being predetermined.” Disjunctive esoteric narratives contained within the work, are premised on personal social and geographic relationships – that in turn manifest an evolving visual shorthand. Booyens has exhibited collectively on a national and international level since 2000, including New Painting at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) in 2006 and a critically acclaimed solo exhibition titled The Matt Sparkle in 2008. His solo works are included in the collection of the prestigious Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris.
janhenribooyens@gmail.com
|  | Avante Car Guard
Avant Car Guard is a three member South African visual art collective (Michael McGarry, Jan Henri Booyens and Zander Blom), who exhibit, practice and author as a singular artist. They have produced three publications on their work, titled Volume I, Volume II and Volume III respectively, and have exhibited at a national and international level for several years. Their production is focused on a conceptual, self-reflexive and satirical approach to the art world – it’s markets, practitioners as well as the process of creating itself. This is manifest across multidisciplinary means; through photography, sculpture, performance, multiples, installation and painting.
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| Barend de Wet Barend de Wet was born in 1956 in Boksburg, Gauteng. A mythical figure in the South African art world with a career straddling nearly thirty years, De Wet is essentially a conceptual formalist. His oeuvre encompasses traditional media, craft skills and fanatical hobbyism that manifests in acts of playful and witty sculptures, ‘knitted paintings’, performances and productive collaborations.
>From being a model for Issey Miyake, beekeeper, world record holder in yo-yoing, serial tattooist and innate exhibitionist, De Wet exemplifies his motto that “art is life and life is art”, and that any and all material matter, whether it be canonical art works or crocheted yarn, offer creative possibilities for transformation. De Wet officially resigned from the art world in 1996 with the announcement of the birth of his son. During 1998 he established the Museum of Temporary Art at his hotel, The Grand, in Observatory, Cape Town. Here he continued his obdurate battle against the intellectualisms of art, favouring honest gestures imbued with visual puns and Duchampian mischief.
In 2010 SMAC Art Gallery presented Barend de Wet’s first major solo exhibition and official return to the gallery in more than a decade. The exhibition entitled GREEN was accompanied by an artist’s monograph chronicling his often overlooked history in South African art, written by Kathryn Smith. Most recent exhibitions include Dada South? at the Iziko South African National Gallery in 2009 and Twenty: South African Sculpture of the Last Two Decades at the Nirox Sculpture Park in 2010.
http://www.smacgallery.com/artist/barend_de_wet
|  | Guy du Toit
Guy du Toit was born in 1958, in Rustenburg. du Toit has exhibited widely both locally and abroad (Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland and USA,) and is represented in local, private, public and corporate collections. He is represented internationally in the Smithsonian Institute, USA, The House of Humour and Satire, Bulgaria, The Montgomery Sculpture Trust, UK, and the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. He has been the recipient of various awards, most notably the FNB-Vita award in 1993 and the Sol Plaatjies Sculpture award in 1989. du Toit has taught at the Pelmama Academy in Soweto, both Johannesburg and Pretoria Technicons, (now UJ and TUT respectively) and the then Johannesburg School of Art, Ballet, Drama and Music. He currently teaches part-time at the University of Pretoria has his studio/foundry in Zwavelpoort, east of Pretoria.
guy.dutoit@up.ac.za
|  | Peter Eastman
Peter Eastman was born 1976. He lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. He has exhibited both locally and internationally and has been a practicing artist since 2001. During this time he has worked prolifically in the media of print, painting and drawing. Eastman has exhibited locally at Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town (2004) and internationally in London and Amsterdam. He was recently commissioned along with William Kentridge, Marlene Dumas, Kendell Geers and other respected south African artists to create a limited edition print in association with the 2010 FIFA World Cup. His work is housed in private and public collections both locally and internationally; notably the Sasol and Hollard Corporate Collections and Hugo Voeten Museum in Belgium.
www.petereastman.com
|  | Wilma Cruise
Wilma Cruise was born in 1945 in Annegarn Johannesburg. In 1997 she obtained her second MA (FA) from UNISA. Working mainly with fired clay on a life size scale she has had fifteen solo exhibitions, curated others and completed a number of public works including the national monument to the women of South Africa and the memorial to the enslaved in Cape Town (the latter in collaboration with Gavin Younge). Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections throughout South Africa.
www.wilmacruise.com
|  | Jacques Coetzer
Jacques Coetzer was born in 1968 in Kimberley, South Africa. He lives and works in Riebeek Kasteel, South Africa. In 1991 he obtained a BA Fine Art (Hons) -University of Pretoria and in 1997: New Media - Media-GN, Groningen, The Netherlands. Over the past year or so artist Jacques Coetzer has been commuting between his eccentric Danish-styled home in Riebeek Kasteel, north of Cape Town, and Moshi, a town in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region. The reason: coffee. For much of the past decade Coetzer, aka the lone guerrilla aka the reluctant sculptor aka boetie from Pretoria aka the man without medical aid, has been a consultant designer and source of amusement for Martin Fitzgerald and Dale Mazon, the enterprising duo behind TriBeCa, an independent coffee company and supplier to Woolworths. One of TriBeCa's suppliers is the Kilimanjaro Native Co-operative Union (KNCU). Founded in 1930, KNCU is Africa's oldest co-operative; it claims a membership base of around 61000 smallholder coffee growers in the Moshi region. Coetzer has been lending his technical know-how - he designed and built his cantilevered home - to the construction of a coffee shop in Moshi. The idea is to give the town's residents a place to hang out, chat and sample their export commodity. (Sean O’Toole)
www.jacquescoetzer.co.za
|  | Clinton de Menzes
Clinton De Menezes was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1970. He achieved his Masters Degree in Fine Art from the Durban Institute of Technology in 2004. De Menezes has lectured in painting, drawing and history of art. He successfully co-founded The Art and Sculpture Studio, co-ordinating and facilitating drawing and painting workshops for adult learners. He was the curator of The Cupboard Gallery and on the exhibitions committee for Durban’s acclaimed Red Eye Art Collective. In 2004 De Menezes founded Alchemy Studios, a company established to fabricate artwork for private and public spaces. In 2007 he relocated to the United Kingdom to actively market Alchemy Studios and to pursue his career in Fine Art. In 2010 he was invited to install Procession (Exodus) in the contemporary galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on long term loan. In 2011 he was a selected as a finalist in the LICC Arts Awards and won the tender for a major commission for the new offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers designed by Norman Foster in More London. De Menezes has work in private, corporate and public collections internationally.
www.clintondemenezes.com
|  | Frikkie Eksteen
Born: Pretoria, 1973. Lives and works in Pretoria. Received his BA(FA) from the University of Pretoria in 1995 and his MFA from the University of Pretoria in 2000. Major exhibitions: UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria; Bell Roberts, Somerset West; Royal Overseas League exhibitions, Edinburgh and London. Awards and scholarships: SASOL New Signatures (runner up in 1995 and overall winner in 1997), Ekurhuleni (runner up in 1994), Absa l’Atelier (top five merit winner in 2009).
frederikeksteen@gmail.com
|  | Paul Emmanuel
Born in 1969 in Kabwe, Zambia, Emmanuel graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1993. He lives and works in Johannesburg.Emmanuel employs various media, including photography and film, to reveal layered visions concerned with his identity as a young white male living in post-apartheid South Africa. In 2004, Phase I of his ephemeral memorial installation The Lost Men Project was launched on the Grahamstown National Arts Festival main visual arts programme to public acclaim. In April 2007, phase II of this project took place in Maputo, Mozambique. In September 2008, his touring museum exhibition Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, featuring his critically acclaimed short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage. In 2009, this non-verbal experimental won the jury prize in the Short Film Competition at the 4th Africa-In-Motion Film Festival of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in the UK. In the same year it was also officially selected for the 12th Antimatter International Film Festival in Victoria, Canada as well as the Design Indaba Expo National Film Festival in Cape Town, South Africa.
www.paulemmanuel.net
|  | Leora Farber
Leora Farber is a Johannesburg-based practising artist who graduated with a BA (Fine Art) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1986 (majoring in painting) and with an MA (Fine Art) (cum laude) from the same university in 1992. In 2007, from her position as Senior Lecturer in the University of Johannesburg’s Fine Art Department, Farber was appointed as the director of the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Art Design and Architecture Research Centre titled Visual Identities in Art and Design. She has published articles in academic journals such as Cultural Politics, n. paradoxa and de arte, and has been the recipient of numerous funding awards, including those from the National Research Foundation and the National Arts Council. She is currently registered for a practice-based PhD in Visual Art at the University of Pretoria.
www.leorafarber.co.za
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Johannesburg to host TED2013 Worldwide Auditions This March Johannesburg joins Doha, London, Nairobi, Tunis and 9 other cities, on 6 continents in hosting TED 2013 Worldwide Auditions, a public search to uncover new talents, voices and ideas the world needs to hear, for TED 2013 themed “The Young, The Wise, The Undiscovered”.
Applications will open separately for each city, at least two months before auditions and are only accessible online. The online application process for the Johannesburg Auditions runs for 20 days from Friday, 24th February to Thursday 15th March 2012. Applicants are encouraged to include a 1-minute video of themselves, and 30 of the best applicants will be invited to each audition.
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